by Jan Flora <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 30, 2008 at 05:52 AM
In article <48152ac5$0$20180$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Evelyn Ruut" <evelyn.ruut@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> My neighbor just brought me a whole bunch of stinging nettle plants. We
are
> going to plant them in the hopes of starting up a nice patch (wearing
> gloves, of course). It is good for arthritis and so many other things,
and
> they also say it is tasty as a spinach type vegetable if picked very
early.
When you get stung, rub a sour dock leaf on the sting and it'll quit
hurting. In the wild, the two plants tend to grow near each other.
Another one that will neutralize the sting is a yellow jewelweed that
grows here, but I'd have to find my Scofield book to give you the exact
plant name.
Steam the young stinging nettles to eat them. They're way better than
spinach!
Jan
